{"id":234291,"date":"2025-06-24T21:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T20:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neuscorp.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/234291\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T21:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T20:03:01","slug":"234291","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neuscorp.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/234291\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cy7ng4vj8leo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">French club Lyon have been demoted to Ligue 2 because of the poor state of their finances.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club were provisionally demoted by the DNGC, the body which oversees the accounts of French professional football clubs, in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lyon officials including owner John Textor, met with the DNGC on Tuesday but failed to convince the body that the club had sufficiently improved their financial situation to lift the punishment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last October, his Eagle Football Group announced debts of \u00a3422m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seven-time French champions Lyon raised around \u00a345m with the sales of Maxence Caqueret to Como in January and Rayan Cherki to Manchester City in June in an attempt to improve their finances. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">High earners such as Alexandre Lacazette and Anthony Lopes have also been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lyon have the right to appeal against the decision. Should it stand, Lyon will be replaced in the top flight by Reims, who were beaten in the relegation play-off by Metz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>(The following story may or may not have been edited by NEUSCORP.COM and was generated automatically from a Syndicated Feed. NEUSCORP.COM also bears no responsibility or liability for the content.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source link French club Lyon have been demoted to Ligue 2 because of the poor state of their finances. The club were provisionally demoted by the DNGC, the body which oversees the accounts of French professional football clubs, in November. Lyon officials including owner John Textor, met with the DNGC on Tuesday but failed to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuscorp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuscorp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuscorp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuscorp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuscorp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neuscorp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuscorp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuscorp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuscorp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuscorp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}